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2. Pebble - Wikipedia

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   Pebble tools are among the earliest known man-made artifacts, dating from the Palaeolithic period of human history. A beach composed chiefly of surface pebbles is commonly termed a shingle beach . This type of beach has armoring characteristics with respect to wave erosion , as well as ecological niches that provide habitat for animals and plants.

3. Expanded clay aggregate - Wikipedia

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   Heat-expanded lightweight pebbles. Lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) or expanded clay (exclay) is a lightweight aggregate made by heating clay to around 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in a rotary kiln. The heating process causes gases trapped in the clay to expand, forming thousands of small bubbles and giving the material a porous structure.

4. Conglomerate (geology) - Wikipedia

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   Two recognized types of intraformational conglomerates are shale-pebble and flat-pebble conglomerates. [6] A shale-pebble conglomerate is a conglomerate that is composed largely of clasts of rounded mud chips and pebbles held together by clay minerals and created by erosion within environments such as within a river channel or along a lake ...

5. Pebbles (cereal) - Wikipedia

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   Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles Cereal were reintroductions of a low market-share Post children's cereal brand called Sugar Rice Krinkles. The Product Group Manager at the time, Larry Weiss, licensed use of The Flintstones for cereal from Hanna-Barbera Productions (now part of Warner Bros. Animation) in an attempt to reinvigorate the children's cereal business for Post Cereals.

6. Gravel - Wikipedia

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   Gravel (largest fragment in this photo is about 40 mm (1.6 in)) Gravel (/ ˈ ɡ r æ v əl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone.

7. A postman collected pebbles every day for 33 years and what ...

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   Originally called "The Temple of Nature," the man-made wonder was built one stone at a time from thousands of pebbles that postman Joseph Ferdinand Cheval collected for 33 years.

8. ‘I’m an impatient person:’ This young CEO wants to capture ...

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   The container is filled with pebbles made of calcium oxide, known as lime, which absorb the CO2. “You can basically picture a box of rocks,” Fredriksson says, “the exhaust gasses pass ...

9. Puddingstone (rock) - Wikipedia

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   Hertfordshire puddingstone is a silica-cemented conglomerate composed of rounded flint pebbles and cobbles with matrix of fine sand and silica cement. The Hertfordshire Puddingstone is characterized by silica-cemented flint gravel that is brown to deep red in colour and often exhibits black exteriors and thin rinds on cut or polished surfaces.